TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Wed Nov 20 11:54:12 EST 2024
FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE |
|
|
Graphic designer from Summerside and/or Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, who was located first in Edmonton, Alberta, and then in Moncton, NB, then in Toronto, and finally in halifax, Nova Scotia. He runs SRC Designs and founded Vintage Type Co in 2015 (not to be confused with Susan Townsend's Vintage Type, a company set up in the 1990s). Creator of the free sans titling typeface family Municipal (2013) and of the hand-printed typeface Fruit Sale (2013). In 2014, he created Shifty Sailor (spurred), Hofmann (psychedelic typeface), Kalopsia Slab (a condensed slab serif family with an arts-and-crafts flair). One weight is free---the others can be bought here. He also created free User Interface Icons in 2014. Typefaces from 2015: Jackal Display, Anaheim Gothic, Alehouse (vintage connected script), Dorchester Display (vintage Victorian typeface), Huxley (brush script), Drone Ranger (octagonal dystopian type), Authentico (vintage poster typeface in eight styles), Firefly (free poster font), Highbinder (an eroded vintage typeface), Adventurous Script (watercolor brush), Nomad Icon Font, Arctic Express (handcrafted capitals). Typefaces from 2016: VTC Numeric (free), Grindstone (vintage), Grindstone Script, Grindstone Sans, Midnight Owl, Southbank (free), Planet Rouge, Life Is Jazz Script, Mystery Tour (+Sans) (a layered Americana or circus font), Sugar Boats, Navy Queen (a nice free font influenced by vintage nautical posters). Typefaces from 2017: Virgo Antique, Virgo Display, PressBox (letterpress and Americana emulation), Merchant Street Sans (eight stackable fonts), Old Spirits (spurred Victorian style), Prizefighter (art deco sans), Andre's Diner, Artisans Script (signature script), Milton Grotesque (a free all caps American grotesque), Queen Street (a layerable family). Typefaces from 2018: Grindhaus Sans (geometric), Drone Ranger Pro (octagonal). Typefaces frm 2019: VTC Bloke (a revival of Miller&Richard's Egyptian Expanded, a wide typeface reminiscent of the Egyptian wood types), VTC Horoscope. Typefaces from 2020: VTC Elmwood (a modernized blackletter font family), Fellbaum Grotesk, VTC Fellbaum Grotesk. Typefaces from 2021: Chocolate Chipped (a condensed woodblock emulation typeface family). Vintage Type Co. Dafont link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Creative Market link. Home page. Creative Market link for Vintage Type Co. |
EXTERNAL LINKS |
| |
| |
Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |